In a lab in Finland, inside tiny lab equipment roughly the size of coffee cups, researchers are turning CO2 into food. The process–which can run on renewable energy, and requires only a small amount of water and nutrients–could eventually be used in a home appliance to make protein at home, or a production facility in a desert that could supply nutrition in the middle of a famine.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40446692/these-scientists-have-discovered-how-to-use-electricity-to-make-protein-from-co2

SINGAPORE: It’s a breakthrough worth raising a glass to.

Researchers in Singapore have brewed up a beer containing probiotic bacteria that can improve gut health and boost the immune system.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2017/07/30/burp-singapore-scientists-hope-for-probiotic-beer-hit/

Nearly half of the atoms that make up our bodies may have formed beyond the Milky Way and travelled to the solar system on intergalactic winds driven by giant exploding stars, astronomers claim.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/27/we-are-all-made-of-stars-half-our-bodies-atoms-formed-beyond-the-milky-way?CMP=share_btn_tw

Tiny eggs have started hatching this week at the San Diego Zoo, and scientists there are celebrating the arrival of baby tree lobsters.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/11/465781993/love-giant-insects-meet-the-tree-lobster-back-from-the-brink

I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s new Walkaway. I think it goes a step beyond any of his previous books. It’s up there with, say, Stross’s Accelerando, Sterling’s Holy Fire, Gibson’s Neuromancer, and my Software. In the cyberpunk pantheon.
http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2017/07/19/cory-doctorows-walkaway/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We2KncJ-tMA

NASA has taken the next step in its bold mission to protect the planet from potentially lethal asteroids.

Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission involves firing a fridge-sized projectile at nine times the speed of a bullet at an incoming asteroid.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nasa-to-deflect-lethal-asteroid-away-from-earth-using-fridge-sized-bullet_uk_595a0d8de4b02734df335099

Chinese researchers have teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting five hundred kilometres above the earth.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-40573621/first-teleportation-from-earth-to-orbit

Humanity is advancing rapidly towards a place where the news sounds an awful lot like science fiction. In fact, yesterday, Chinese scientists reported that they “teleported” a photon over hundreds of miles using a “quantum satellite.” But this isn’t Star Trek. It’s the real world.

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-w-1796818859

If you’ve ever had the privilege of seeing glow-in-the-dark coral you’ll know that it’s one of nature’s most beautiful creations.

Usually found in shallow waters the coral’s impressive ability is actually a form of sunblock that helps protect it from the Sun’s harmful rays.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/scientists-have-unlocked-the-mystery-of-why-deep-sea-corals-glow-in-the-dark_uk_59635693e4b0615b9e92acd5?utm_hp_ref=uk

For the first time ever, scientists have used predatory bacteria to kill pneumonia in a rat animal model. The research, published online in mBio, provides evidence that predatory bacteria can be used as a therapeutic, offering a possible solution to the rise of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-11-predatory-bacteria-potential-solution-drug.html#jCp